Legal Opinion
United States v. Trudie P. Westmoreland
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 23, 1988No. 87-4515PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
A county supervisor appeals her convictions for bribery, extortion, and mail fraud because she took kickbacks in purchases of county materials. She asserts that a federal statute prohibiting theft or bribery concerning federally funded programs does not apply to cases involving only state funds, that the district court wrongly admitted unduly prejudicial evidence, that the government’s proof of her criminal predisposition failed to overcome her entrapment defense, and that there was insufficient evidence of extortion and mail fraud. We conclude that none of these arguments…
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